PaulHowarth/Blog/2025-07

Paul's Blog Entries for July 2025

Tuesday 1st July 2025

Local Packages

  • Updated curl in the development repository to new upstream release candidate 8.15.0~rc2

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Local Packages

  • Updated unrar to 7.12

Thursday 3rd July 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Test-MockModule to 0.180.0 in Rawhide:

    • Remove Software::License from runtime dependencies (GH#67, GH#68)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20250702:

    • Updated for v5.42.0
  • Updated perl-Test-MockModule to 0.180.0 as per the Fedora version

Monday 7th July 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Finance-Quote to 1.66 in F-41, F-42, Rawhide and EPEL-10:

    • Modified CurrencyRates/CurrencyFreaks.pm to return from and to values instead of calculated rate

    • Removed Bloomberg.pm, Tiaacref.pm, Troweprice.pm

    • AlphaVantage: Return 'symbol not found' when no price data is returned

    • ASX: Changed error message when symbol isn't found (GH#497)

    • Added a new module to fetch the fund NAV from CMBChina (GH#494)

    • Added Cookie Jar to Comdirect user agent (GH#491)

    • Removed HU.pm, Oslobors.pm, and SEB.pm (GH#490)

  • Updated perl-Moose to 2.4000 in Rawhide:

  • Documentation
    • Clarified some wording regarding the interactions between attribute configuration options "init_arg" and "required" (GH#187)

  • Other
  • Updated perl-Test-Differences to 0.72 in Rawhide:

    • Changes to tests only, so tests pass when you have a new perl that supports bools, but an old Data::Dumper that doesn't

Local Packages

  • Updated city-fan.org-release to include the GPG key for the Fedora 43 repository in the package

  • Updated perl-Moose to 2.4000 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Net-DNS to 1.51:

    • Resync with IANA DNS Parameters registry
    • Add prototype DELEG RR package
    • Minor code and documentation improvements
  • Updated perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu to 1.46:

    • Add readline-8.3 support

      • New functions: rl_reparse_colors, rl_print_keybinding

      • New variables: rl_full_quoting_desired, rl_macro_display_hook, rl_completion_rewrite_hook

      • New state values for rl_readline_state: RL_STATE_READSTR

    • Sample code updates
      • Import almost all examples from the GNU Readline Library
      • Use "/usr/bin/env" for sh-bang

      • Add eg/README.md

    • Make the check for being in emacs to be more like bash (GH#28)

    • Add a wrap function on every function that has Keymap as an argument

    • Add some constant functions
      • Add macro functions for rl_readline_state: RL_SETSTATE(), RL_UNSETSTATE(), RL_ISSTATE()

      • Export READERR

    • Fix for compilation in C23 mode (GH#32)

    • POD updates
      • Fix description of add_defun() in BUGS section (GH#23)

      • Fix formatting
    • GitHub actions: update OS and perl-version matrix

  • Updated perl-Test-Differences to 0.72 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 8th July 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated python-crypto (2.6.1) to stop using deprecated %py3_build/%py3_install macros (Bug #2377592)

  • Updated python-fluidity-sm (0.2.0) to stop using deprecated %py3_build/%py3_install macros (Bug #2377723)

  • Updated python-lexicon (2.0.1) to stop using deprecated %py3_build/%py3_install macros (Bug #2377852)

  • Updated python-paramiko (3.5.1) to stop using deprecated %py3_build/%py3_install macros (Bug #2377972)

Thursday 10th July 2025

Local Packages

  • Updated curl in development repository to new upstream release candidate 8.15.0~rc3

Friday 11th July 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated geoipupdate to 7.1.1 in Rawhide:

    • Update dependencies and re-build binaries with new Go version; no substantive changes
  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20250710.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2025-07-10
  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.095 in Rawhide:

    • Regression: make sysread set buffer to empty string again when returning EOF (GH#171)

  • Branched and built smbldap-tools (0.9.11) for EPEL-9

Local Packages

  • All Perl based packages in the development repository rebuilt for Perl 5.42
  • Updated geoipupdate to 7.1.1 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.095 as per the Fedora version

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